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Israel To Build Fence To Separate West Bank
Aired July 12, 2003 - 18:32 ET
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SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR: The construction of a massive fence is causing separation anxiety for some Palestinians. The security barrier will separate Israel from the West Bank, but some say it will also cut through lives. CNN's Dan Lothian has the story of one community's worries.
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DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): South of Jerusalem, along Israel's border with the West Bank, the small villages of Al- Naaman is undertaking a community project, rooted in politics. Taking a stand by improving the land villagers fear will be cut off once Israel's separation fence is built.
(on camera): Are you angry about the fence?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I am very angry.
LOTHIAN (voice-over): Ibrahim Durari (ph) has been here all of his 55 years. Israel lays claim to this land, but the people who live here are Palestinian.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see, there's a very, very, very, very massive construction just...
LOTHIAN: The fence, say activists with an Arab-Jewish partnership will make it difficult for residents to move freely in the West Bank, and even harder to go into Jerusalem, because special permission would be needed. That's why hundreds showed up to support the people here.
YURI PINES, TAAYUSH PARTNERSHIP ACTIVIST: They are feeling that their land is being taken, that their world is destroyed.
LOTHIAN (on camera): What seemed for the 200 people living in the village like an unfair, humiliating separation, is seen by Israel as necessary for security. The theory, erect the face along this rocky ground in order to block would-be bombers from gaining easy access to Israeli targets.
(voice-over): The road to peace runs along a fence, when completed, 120 miles long. But the cost to this village and the peace process, say supporters, is high.
PINES: Without the future of Palestinians, without peace, and without dignity of Palestinians, there will be no peace, no dignity and no future for us as Israelis. LOTHIAN: With their main water supply destroyed, they say, by construction on the fence, villagers and their supporters are installing a temporary line, and in what is mostly a symbolic move, they are giving their streets and their local school a facelift, a small village on the road map trying to survive alongside Israel's security concerns.
Dan Lothian, CNN, Al-Naaman village, West Bank.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired July 12, 2003 - 18:32 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOPHIA CHOI, CNN ANCHOR: The construction of a massive fence is causing separation anxiety for some Palestinians. The security barrier will separate Israel from the West Bank, but some say it will also cut through lives. CNN's Dan Lothian has the story of one community's worries.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): South of Jerusalem, along Israel's border with the West Bank, the small villages of Al- Naaman is undertaking a community project, rooted in politics. Taking a stand by improving the land villagers fear will be cut off once Israel's separation fence is built.
(on camera): Are you angry about the fence?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I am very angry.
LOTHIAN (voice-over): Ibrahim Durari (ph) has been here all of his 55 years. Israel lays claim to this land, but the people who live here are Palestinian.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You see, there's a very, very, very, very massive construction just...
LOTHIAN: The fence, say activists with an Arab-Jewish partnership will make it difficult for residents to move freely in the West Bank, and even harder to go into Jerusalem, because special permission would be needed. That's why hundreds showed up to support the people here.
YURI PINES, TAAYUSH PARTNERSHIP ACTIVIST: They are feeling that their land is being taken, that their world is destroyed.
LOTHIAN (on camera): What seemed for the 200 people living in the village like an unfair, humiliating separation, is seen by Israel as necessary for security. The theory, erect the face along this rocky ground in order to block would-be bombers from gaining easy access to Israeli targets.
(voice-over): The road to peace runs along a fence, when completed, 120 miles long. But the cost to this village and the peace process, say supporters, is high.
PINES: Without the future of Palestinians, without peace, and without dignity of Palestinians, there will be no peace, no dignity and no future for us as Israelis. LOTHIAN: With their main water supply destroyed, they say, by construction on the fence, villagers and their supporters are installing a temporary line, and in what is mostly a symbolic move, they are giving their streets and their local school a facelift, a small village on the road map trying to survive alongside Israel's security concerns.
Dan Lothian, CNN, Al-Naaman village, West Bank.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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